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OCS Research Awards

Each year, OCS proudly awards a student research grant to support and foster innovative research within the student community. This grant is designed to provide students with the resources and opportunities needed to advance their academic pursuits, enhance their research skills, and contribute to their chosen field.

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Past Research Awards Receipients

2022

Rebecca Bateman

2021

Bailee Woolley

Life-history and reproductive behaviour of the Vulnerable Melbourne Skate to inform fisheries management and conservation

2020

Madie Cooper

Genome skimming of the critically endangered largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) using portable nanopore sequencing technology

2018

Shiori Kanno

Habitat use, movement patterns and trophic ecology of elasmobranchs within mangroves

2017

Ian Bouyocous

Reef shark performance in the 21st century

2016

Lauren Meyer

Trophic ecology of white sharks towards identifying key foraging habitats using novel biochemistry techniques

2015

Lauren Davey

2014

Jonathan Smart

Age, growth and demography of grey reef sharks and silvertip sharks in Papua New Guinea

2013

Chris Mull

Evolutionary transitions among modes of maternal investment in elasmobranchs

2012

Kathryn Buckley

Public aquariums and the conservation of the Freshwater Sawfish, Pristis microdon; impacts and benefits of keeping a threatened species

2011

Cassie Rigby

Life history of deepwater sharks in the Great Barrier Reef: non-lethal ageing

2010

Fernanda de Faria

Recreational fishing of sharks in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: Species composition and catch and release stress

2009

Kathryn Lee

Tracking the movements of Wobbegong Sharks

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